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If women are expected to donate eggs and a uterus, men should donate their penis and testicles?

130 replies

WhatHaveYou · 09/02/2019 16:15

I see from the comments here people are happy for women alive and dead to donate, if that's ok then why aren't transmen being offered the same primary sex organs?

Is what's good enough for the cervix haver is good enough for the ejaculator?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6685681/Leading-British-surgeon-calls-transgender-women-life-changing-womb-transplants.html

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hidinginthenightgarden · 09/02/2019 16:17

Maybe they don't work the same?

Aquamarine1029 · 09/02/2019 16:17

Women are "expected" to donate their eggs and uterus? Since when and by who is this now "expected?"

CaveMum · 09/02/2019 16:19

I just don’t get it, how on Earth is a uterus going to be able to function in a MAN’S BODY. The pelvis is the wrong shape for a start so could it even expand in the way it needs to, not to mention the cocktail of artificial hormones that would need to be pumped into the MAN’S BODY (and therefore the growing foetus) in order to sustain a pregnancy.

And yes, those are deliberate Caps.

CallMeWoman · 09/02/2019 16:19

All fantasies should be entertained as if they could work in the real world!

Where's my prehensile monkey tail? Arguably more useful than a penis...

lljkk · 09/02/2019 16:21

"people" ? Pah. Not THIS again. Y A W N *

Sparklingbrook · 09/02/2019 16:21

It's probably not all that straightforward.

PurpleDaisies · 09/02/2019 16:23

YABU for linking to the Daily Mail.

WhatHaveYou · 09/02/2019 16:24

The good Dr could experiment with one of his own testicles?

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CloserIAm2Fine · 09/02/2019 16:27

Who is it who is “expecting” women to donate anything? If women choose to do so while alive that’s they’re choice. If they wish to do so after they die then that’s also their choice (and their next of kin).

If the medical technology allows, I would say exactly the same about men donating their reproductive organs.

But hey, don’t let anything rational get in the way of a bit of hysteria or anything will you

WhatHaveYou · 09/02/2019 16:29

You will shortly have to opt out of organ donation, the change in law is working it's way through parliament.

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CaveMum · 09/02/2019 16:35

I am more than happy for my uterus/ovaries to go to another woman in order to facilitate her having a child.

I am NOT happy for them to be implanted into a biological male so that he can live out a twisted fantasy of being a woman.

NettleTea · 09/02/2019 16:46

I imagine there will be guilt and pressure galore piled onto young women who are transitioning to male into giving up their unwanted uteruses to middle aged fantasists

SchadenfreudePersonified · 09/02/2019 16:46

F*UCK THIS!!!

These are my lady bits - No-one - NO-ONE is getting them.

NettleTea · 09/02/2019 16:47

But meanwhile my daughter, with a life threatening disease, is denied drugs that are deemed too expensive to save a life, and when the time comes she needs a lung transplant, we will be waiting with fingers crossed that a match shows up in time.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 09/02/2019 16:47

Whathaveyou - can you say which bits you are willing to donate?

I'm happy to give eyes, lints, heart etc, but no - I don't want my uterus and ovaries bandied about.

WhatHaveYou · 09/02/2019 16:51

I was once on the organ donation list. I later decided to remove myself.

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Boysandbuses · 09/02/2019 16:53

I am NOT happy for them to be implanted into a biological male so that he can live out a twisted fantasy of being a woman.

I don't think you will get to make that choice It's either donate or don't.

Springwalk · 09/02/2019 16:53

What a strange post.

Yes you can do a womb transplant but how would it ever actually work?! You would need a cervix and your body would need to sustain life after conception.

We are a long way off this ever being possible.

I am not sure what you are hoping for - being able to ejaculate?

And may I suggest you get some professional help with your issues op. You seem to be harbouring an awful lot of bile and bitterness, it isn’t good for you to live like this.
Wishing you peace and happiness

DoneLikeAKipper · 09/02/2019 16:53

I was once on the organ donation list. I later decided to remove myself.

Off topic, but why?

AliyyaJann · 09/02/2019 16:56

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WhatHaveYou · 09/02/2019 16:58

And may I suggest you get some professional help with your issues op. You seem to be harbouring an awful lot of bile and bitterness, it isn’t good for you to live like this.
Wishing you peace and happiness

How kind, right back at you.

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Mummyoflittledragon · 09/02/2019 17:00

Of course all the money and research will go onto MtF trans ops. Hmm

Medical research has always been incredibly male biased. I don’t think it was necessarily intentionally so as most doctors, surgeons were and are male. Women were just not thought about, which is why gynaecology is such an underfunded and under developed area. Especially in this country.

I’m with you op. I would have thought it possible to atta

Mummyoflittledragon · 09/02/2019 17:01

Oops. iPad went nuts

I would have thought it easily possible to attach a penis and testicles even if not fully functioning.

GrubbyHipsterBeard · 09/02/2019 17:01

I think it’s ridiculous, but I also don’t think anyone is “expecting” women to donate these organs. As with all transplants, it would be on the basis of if and when a donor organ becomes available.

icannotremember · 09/02/2019 17:02
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